Occupy Vancouver turns one
Posted October 15, 2012 7:31 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Members of Occupy Vancouver are returning to the lawn of the Vancouver Art Gallery today to mark the first anniversary of the controversial camp.
At its height, more than 5,000 so-called 99 per centers were part of the 39 day protest, but eventually what began as a middle class movement, was taken over by other elements of society.
“They were always there — the homeless, the radicals, the old leftists — but they were just sort of masked over with a lot more middle class students coming down.”
That’s part of the story documentary filmmaker Matthew Van Deventer helps tell in The Occupation which is screening tonight at the Rio Theatre on East Broadway.
“As the weather changed and as certain events came about — like the ODs and the unfortunate deaths — the popular opinion of this changed,” notes Van Deventer.
Occupy members will be at the Art Gallery from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m., a day that is to include discussion groups, workshops, speakers, music, and even a cake cutting ceremony.
